Creative Approaches to Problem Solving 3rd Edition by Scott G. Isaksen – Test Bank

Chapter One

1. The authors’ definition of creative thinking emphasizes:
2. the strange and unpredictable nature of the creative experience.
3. inventing novel ideas that no one else ever considered before.
4. generating many, varied, unusual, and detailed options.
5. using the imagination to produce artistic or musical works.

2. Four basic elements of creative thinking are:
3. fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration.
4. imagination, fantasy, discovery, and inventiveness.
5. preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification.
6. comprehension, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

3. Creative and critical thinking are:
4. opposites that are incompatible.
5. two different terms to describe the same cognitive process.
6. complementary cognitive processes that work in harmony.
7. two separate stages of problem solving.

4. The “4 Ps” of a systemic approach to creativity are:
5. Principle, Praise, Products, Profit.
6. Person, Process, Product, Principle,
7. Person, Process, Product, Press,    
8. Preparation, Playfulness, Pattern, Prize,

5. Which choice presents Besemer’s three categories of creative products ?
6. Novelty, Style, and Resolution,
7. Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation,
8. Style, Usefulness, and Acceptance.
9. Organic, Manufactured, and Abstract,